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...Herman Kahn has berated the CRIMSON (letter, May 13). He feels that his slighting remarks about moral arguments (speech, March 16) were terribly misrepresented, claims that he put morals aside because they are too complicated to be dealt with...
...Herman Kahin is lying. I heard that speech, and the CRIMSON's version was accurate, if brief. There wasn't the faintest suggestion in Kahn's statements that he considered morality too complex an issue. Indeed, his attitude was one of simple scorn. Kahn very cavalierly dimissed moral factors as irrelevant and, despite his claims to the contrary, made no distinctions between kinds of moral arguments. His view was that if you use moral arguments, "it implies that you're better than anybody else" (Kahn's version of "who're you to decide what's right?"). After some mumbling along...
...something to the effect that "there'd be a bloodbath if we pulled out." Familiars? Aside from the obvious six-year bloodbath which he'd rather ignore, Kahn's reply strongly suggests that he's against bloodbaths - a moral argument if ever there was one! For Herman Kahn wants to play it both ways. His moral sensibilities are most upset about what "the Communists" might do, or about the highly doubtful events at Hue. But the morality of free-fire zones, of B-52 raids? Ah, well... that's "complicated," Kahn doesn't want to "divide the country," and besides...
Ramsey Clark, who is serving as an attorney for the Harrisburg Eight, yesterday asked U.S. District Court Judge Herman Dixon to investigate government records to determine whether evidence against the defendants had been obtained by wiretaps...
...homeward leg of Rogers' hectic tour, TIME Correspondent, Herman Nickel, who accompanied the Secretary of State, concluded that the trip had accomplished much. U.S. spokesmen felt that they had persuaded both sides that it was essential to keep talking peace to achieve peace. Cabled Nickel: "Rogers succeeded in putting official U.S.-Israeli relations on a more businesslike, less sentimental and chummy basis. This required considerable firmness. Certainly Rogers had his priorities right. Given the solid state of the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the tender young reed of a new American relationship with the Arabs, Arab sensibilities were more important than...